Care Instructions

I’m just a pink sand crab (laughter)
harmless, don’t worry, I go back to where I came from
but not unchanged not
without
change, brave and factual alteration alteration
brave and factual alteration change
altercation

DON’T SHRINK!

alteration

The coarse things are a sign for the finer
the coarse things
and synthetics,
no?

Who remembers the thirteenth godmother from The Sleeping Beauty: the uninvited guest, by whose curse the princess was fated to fall asleep for a hundred years? Now she washes, waiting for her chance to ‘make another better wish’, when, finally, the royal child awakens. Care Instructions delves into rhyme and sing-song to consider the materials, size and cut of remorse. Set in a mythical laundromat, it celebrates the transformative effects of poetry in polyphony, and the allusive charge of piles of washing. Whether as a lone voice or a chorus of knowing women, this potently original work takes up delicate questions about the need to renounce judgement, and discover one’s capacity for self-reliance.